Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma and Orthopaedic
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 275-0125COG
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Orthogeriatrician
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Consultant Orthogeriatrician
Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Contract Length: Permanent
We are recruiting for a Consultant Orthogeriatrician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
Applications are invited for a full-time (10PAs) Consultant Orthogeriatrician to work in the department of Trauma and Orthopaedics.
The Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics has 3 dedicated ward areas (Harvey Ward, Phoenix Ward and Ocelot Ward which includes 14 protected ultra clean elective beds). They are situated in the new extension at the Medway Maritime Hospital (Level 3 Green Zone) commissioned in March 1999. A Surgical High Dependency Unit was opened in 2006 and a Surgical Assessment Unit was opened in 2005.
Presently, the Department of T&O consists of 15 Orthopaedic Consultants, 1 Orthogeriatric Consultant, 5 Specialist Trainees (KSS Deanery), SAS Doctors, Foundation doctors and SHO's.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Develop and embed the pathways for non-ambulatory frailty fractures.
- Improve pre-operative optimisation, lead the perioperative medical management of fractured-femur, peri prosthetic fracture and non-ambulatory frailty fracture patients and to coordinate the subsequent rehabilitation process.
- Provide oversite and clinical supervision for junior doctors attached to your team (4 doctors) and contribute towards the teaching and training.
- Participate in the daily trauma meetings, daily MDT meetings, weekly handover meeting and monthly hip fracture/ non-ambulatory frailty fracture meetings to improve care in line with NICE/BPT/NAFF/GIRFT guidelines.
- Participate and attend the monthly audit and clinical governance meetings.
- Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by maintenance of continuing professional development.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years post membership experience
- At least 1 year in geriatrics and at least 1 year in ortho-geriatrics
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration with license to practise.
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for Geriatric Medicine via either: a) Certificate of completion of training (CCT) (or within 6 months of interview date). b) Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR). c) European Community Rights.
- MBBS (or equivalent)
- Speciality Certificate Exam in Geriatrics (RCP) or Equivalent
- Post graduate membership with at least 2 years post membership experience
- ALS (up to date)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Perioperative management of elderly frail patients
- Discharge planning with the multidisciplinary team – OT, PT, dieticians
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paraskumar Mohanlal
- Job title
- Clinical Lead, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
- Email address
- [email protected]
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